The poshest county in the UK?

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Which one county would you say is the outright poshest in the UK? Let’s not use Greater London here, and I know there will be social diversity in all, but which would you say is the poshest overall?
I’m going with Berkshire, darling.😂

I think people who consider Surrey to just be suburban are only thinking of the bit within the M25 (Epsom, Ewell, Staines etc). Most of Surrey is rural or semi-rural.

Guildford, Leatherhead, Woking, Egham, Banstead, Ashstead, Caterham, Redhill, Warlingham, Whyteleafe, Woodmasterne, Chertsey, Dorking are all pretty suburban to me.

But I don't equate rural with posh.

But I think some people think of celebs as posh.

It’s flashy not posh. But I think people are giving posh their own meaning on this thread - as ever on MN.

True dat

That’s a pointless poll! It hasn’t got sufficient options.

Even excluding Peterborough, Cambridgeshire have very rural and deprived areas (Wisbech, March etc). Cambridge city and parts of south cambs can be ‘posh’. But it’s quite diverse and whilst the people are well educated I wouldn’t call them posh.

Rutland, of course.

I think the countryside and villages are posh, probably Winchester but not Southampton or Portsmouth.

Haslemere, Godalming, Farnham and the surrounding villages are pretty posh and old money. Not flashy at all.

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"a posh hotel".

I know some think celebrities as 'posh'. It doesn't make it so.

Isn't Henley in Oxfordshire?

Buckinghamshire - the bits I have been to, anyway.

Bits of Somerset are super posh, although I grew up there and this defintely is not applicable to the entire county.

OMG - why has that come out so big!!

Buckinghamshire and Berkshire are quite posh.

Surrey has posh parts 9(he northern bit) but some parts aren't

It's highly annoying that. Rural Essex has sweet sod all to do with Towie yet most of the country labelled like it. Add Basildon to that and Essex has no chance of being called posh lol.

But I think it's the same as most other places. Some nice bits and some dives.

With a few exceptions, most celebrities I can think of are the antithesis of posh.

But clearly we all have our own criteria …

Yes there are bits that are quite posh.

I live in Bucks but being so close to London it’s very ‘new money’ now (see Beaconsfield). So I vote for Hampshire.

Nobody smart lives in Buckinghamshire.

Are you talking actual posh or just moneyed?…. If actual posh then I reckon Oxfordshire.

It's definitely Cheshire. When characters on Coronation Street are going for a posh meal or thinking of buy a posh house it's always in CHESHIRE. That's the proof poshness right there.

I think Bucks is new money now too (though clearly to some new money is the height of posh).

Berks has also lost a certain polish, though a contender on some fronts.

Yeah I think I’d vote Norfolk, Hampshire snd Oxfordshire.

Only I can’t cos the poll is rigged …

I think @SiobhanSharpe maybe meant Newbury which is in Berkshire and horsey x

Devon

Well if you’re meaning the type of posh that says “ let’s do something posh” then you are probably right!